Barrett L. McCormick
Barret McCormick is a Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Marquette University. He obtained a PH.D from the University of Wisconsin in 1985. Prof. McCormick specializes in Chinese politics and his current research project is about Media Markets and the Transformation of China's Public Sphere. Previous projects include edited volumes and articles on U.S.-China relations [with Edward Friedman, What If China Doesn’t Democratize? (ME Sharpe, 2000)] and comparing China to Eastern Europe and East Asia [with Jonathan Unger, The Future of Chinese Socialism (ME Sharpe, 1996)]. McCormick’s publications also include Political Reform in Post-Mao China (California, 1990), and articles in journals such as The China Journal, Journal of Asian Studies, Pacific Affairs, Issues and Studies and Twenty-First Century.
David C. Koelsch
David C. Koelsch is Director of the Immigration Law Clinic at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law. He teaches Immigration Law and lectures frequently on U.S. and Canadian immigration law and policy. Professor Koelsch previously served as Legal Director with Freedom House - Detroit.
Heinz Klug
Heinz Klug is Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School and an Honorary Senior Research Associate in the School of Law at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Growing up in Durban, South Africa, he participated in the anti-apartheid struggle, spent 11 years in exile and returned to South Africa in 1990 as a member of the ANC Land Commission and researcher for Zola Skweyiya, chairperson of the ANC Constitutional Committee. He was also a team member on the World Bank mission to South Africa on Land Reform and Rural Restructuring. He has taught at Wisconsin since September 1996.
Jean Maclean Snyder
Jean Maclean Snyder is an attorney who litigates civil and criminal cases involving human rights issues such as the treatment of mentally ill prisoners and the improper use of force by prison guards. Recently, she obtained a “not guilty” verdict in the retrial of a man who was convicted and sentenced to death in 1986 by a judge who secretly took bribes to fix cases. Now in private practice, Ms. Snyder formerly was trial counsel at the MacArthur Justice Center and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School.
Joey Mogul
Joey Mogul is an attorney with the People's Law Office in Chicago who specializes in civil rights cases involving police misconduct, criminal cases brought against individuals engaged in street demonstrations, and other forms of First Amendment expression, and capital defense cases. She is also an adjunct law professor at DePaul University College of Law teaching at the Civil Rights Clinic. She has been actively engaged in the litigation and community organizing around the Chicago Police Torture cases, recently presenting these cases to the United Nations Committee Against Torture and the Human Rights Committee in Geneva, Switzerland in 2006.
Lisa Stratton
Lisa Stratton is the Associate Professor of Clinical Instruction at the University of Minnesota Law School. She has experience of a nationwide practice representing plaintiffs in all types of employment discrimination and harassment cases. She has particular expertise in sex discrimination cases involving hostility toward women in non-traditional workplaces and glass-ceiling issues. She has represented individual employees in cases involving sex and race discrimination as well as immigrants from Asia, Mexico and Iran in national origin discrimination cases. Professor Stratton also counsels individuals negotiating employment contracts or separations from their employment.
Maia Justine Storm
Maia Justine Storm is an immigration attorney in private practice in Kalamazoo, Michigan. A graduate of the Thomas M. Cooley Law School, she is committed to helping detainees, especially those individuals classified as “criminal alien detainees.” Ms. Storm also serves as the Executive Director of FIND (Furnishing Incarcerated Non-Citizens with Direction), which is an issue chapter of International CURE, a prisoner advocacy organization. She was the 2007
recipient of the Michigan State Bar's John S. Cummiskey Pro Bono Attorney of the year award.
Marcella David
Marcella David is a Professor of Law at the University of Iowa College of Law, joining the faculty in 1995. She has studied Human Rights and Comparative Law as a Ford Foundation Fellow in Public International Law at the Harvard Law School. In that capacity, she participated in an investigatory mission to Iraq, traveled through South Africa, and researched the impact of economic sanctions in both countries. Professor David's research interests include the use of economic and other sanctions, international criminal law, and questions related to international organizations.
Nancy Arnison
Nancy Arnison is serving as the Director for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's (ELCA) World Hunger Program. She has previously served as Deputy Director and Director of Policy and Programs at Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights, Program Director of Physicians for Human Rights, Boston, Director of Resource and Development at United Theological Seminary, and as an attorney at Briggs & Morgan Law Firm. Ms. Arnison has served as a lecturer on a number of topics including international human rights, economic and health issues for women and children, and humanitarian law.
Nancy Bothne
Nancy Bothne worked as the Midwest Regional Director for Amnesty International - USA from 1994 to 2004. In that position she served as primary spokesperson for Amnesty International in the Midwest and was charged with developing and implementing strategies for Amnesty's human rights agenda in the region. Beginning Fall 2005, Ms. Bothne will be pursuing a Ph.D. in community psychology at DePaul University, studying how human rights trauma impacts the community as well as individuals, and how communities recover and rebuild themselves following such trauma.